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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding responses to the 2023 Grand Jury Reports, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2023 Grand Jury report entitled "A Death in Custody - Lessons Learned”;
b) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2023 Grand Jury report entitled "Every Death in Custody is a Failure”;
c) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2023 Grand Jury report entitled “A Vicious Cycle - Incarceration of the Severely Mentally Ill”;
d) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2023 Grand Jury report entitled “Death on Electronic Monitored Home Release”;
e) Authorize the Chair to sign the letters and forward the letters and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and
f) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are is government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE